Social division of labour
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The division of labour is the specialization of cooperating individuals who perform specific tasks and roles. Because of the large amount of labour saved by giving workers specialized tasks in Industrial Revolution-era factories, some classical economists as well as some mechanical engineers such as Charles Babbage were proponents of division of labour. Also, having workers perform single or limited tasks eliminated the long training period required to train craftsmen, who were replaced with lesser paid but more productive unskilled workers.
See also
- Assembly line
- Complex society
- Economic sector
- Family economy
- Fordism
- Hierarchy
- Industrial Revolution
- Industrialisation
- New international division of labour
- Organisation
- Productive and unproductive labour
- Price system
- Social division of labour
- Surplus product
- Taylorism
- Time use survey
- Urbanization
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